Jeff Bezos says ‘AI will create more jobs’ after sharing roles that will never be replaced

Jess Bezos reckons AI will create more jobs for humans, rather than leave them all unemployed, as so many fear.

AI is on the rise and creeping its way into practically everything.

Be it creating videos of random celebrities fighting in a WWE ring, doing kids' homework for them or helping what feels like 90% of pubs in the UK create posters that all look exactly the same, it's hard to go a day without seeing something AI-created in some form.

Yet, despite the sensory bombardment, the biggest worry when it comes to artificial intelligence is the huge impact it can have on jobs the world over.

With AI able to automate a whole raft of tasks, an untold number of roles are at risk.

A study from Microsoft listed 40 jobs that are most in danger, finding that translators, historians, mathematicians, proofreaders and automatic machine coders are all positions with at least a 90% per cent AI overlap.

Things certainly look bleak, but don't worry! Jeff Bezos has put those fears to rest.

Speaking at a tech conference in Paris last week, Bezos pushed back against the notion that AI will replace large numbers of workers.

"I know there's a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on," Bezos said, as reported by the BBC.

"I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labour shortage."

Jeff Bezos has pushed back against AI fears. (Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Bill Gates seemingly disagrees with Jeff Bezos on AI

The Amazon tycoons' words are sure to come as great comfort to those who have already been pushed out of their jobs in the middle of a Cost of Living Crisis in the UK.

A study by investment bank Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg, found that jobs are being lost to AI.

British companies had the highest rate among other leading economies - including the USA, Japan, Germany and Australia - of net job losses over the last 12 months, down eight per cent.

Bill Gates doesn't seem to agree with Bezos on AI's impact on the job market, either.

The Microsoft founder has named just four professions he thinks will survive the rise of AI.

Having previously named coders, biologists and energy workers as the jobs that will still be needed, he's now added professional athletes to the list.

During an appearance on Jimmy Fallon, Gates said: "You know, like baseball. We won't want to watch computers play baseball."

Gates then went on to say that humans won't be 'needed for most things' in the not too distant future.

Sounds fun.

The jobs Jeff Bezos doesn't think will be replaced

Bezos has no qualms with use AI at Amazon to replace workers, but has previously shared his belief that creatives will be safe - which again, doesn't sound great for the job market - from the robot takeover as AI is still unable to effectively create its own ideas without a prompt to kick the ball rolling.

“Put me in front of a whiteboard and I can generate a hundred ideas in half an hour," he said at Italian Tech Week in 2025.

"I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive.

"[AI will make every business’] quality go up and their productivity go up. Every manufacturing company, every hotel, every consumer products company. That’s hard to fathom, but it’s real.

“There’s never been a better time to be excited about the future."

Sounds like it'll be great for the companies. For the little guy? Not so much.